Jay A. Langston has been named the new executive director of the Shenandoah Valley Partnership.
Langston is managing director of business retention and expansion at the Richmond-based Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP).
He will begin work at the Harrisonburg-based economic development organization in December.
Langston succeeds Carrie Chenery who announced in August she was stepping down as executive director to spend more time with her 1-year-old daughter.
Chenery has started a local government relations and economic development consulting firm, Valley Pike Partners.
“I think Jay will do a wonderful job,” Chenery says about her successor. “I’ve known him for years and I think it’s a great next step and progression in the life of SVP.”
